captain kulzean
New Member
i have a 14 year old son who is desperate for me to take him out stalking can someone let me know if i would be breaking any laws?
14 TO 16 YEARS OF AGE
At the age of 14 a person may hold a firearm certificate and may then be given firearms and ammunition within the conditions on the certificate.
The law does not set a minimum age at which the holder of a firearm certificate may shoot without adult supervision. That is left to the discretion of the parent or guardian.
THE FIREARMS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1988
The above act made it lawful for someone of, or over, the age of 17 to borrow a rifle from the occupier of private land and use it, on that land, under the supervision of the occupier but only under the conditions on that certificate. Under these circumstances the rifle can also be borrowed from a “servant of the occupier”, for example a gamekeeper.